Hi All,
I'm at the point where I'd like to install a fresh copy of Snow Leopard on a newly-formatted drive in my Mac Pro (3,1 — early, 2008). I have three questions before I do this:
1) My boot drive is currently named "System," and I would like that to be the name of the new boot drive as well (i.e. the drive onto which I will install the fresh copy of Snow Leopard). Is it possible to have 2 hard drives with the same name? I'm not font of the standard "Macintosh HD" name, especially since I use my boot drive mainly for the system, while keeping data, etc. on other internal drives.
2) Is it possible to choose the same username as I currently use on the new drive/system? I currently use two syncing services: MobileMe and SugarSync. I plan to disable them while I install the new system, with the hope that I can enable them on a system with the same username and drive name—thus streamlining the process of bringing them up to speed.
3) If either of these issues aren't possible, I do have another system installed in bay 3, so that would potentially allow me to remove my current system drive from the machine, thus allowing me to definitively use "System" as the name of the new system drive, and my current username as the new username.
Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
-Jason
I'm at the point where I'd like to install a fresh copy of Snow Leopard on a newly-formatted drive in my Mac Pro (3,1 — early, 2008). I have three questions before I do this:
1) My boot drive is currently named "System," and I would like that to be the name of the new boot drive as well (i.e. the drive onto which I will install the fresh copy of Snow Leopard). Is it possible to have 2 hard drives with the same name? I'm not font of the standard "Macintosh HD" name, especially since I use my boot drive mainly for the system, while keeping data, etc. on other internal drives.
2) Is it possible to choose the same username as I currently use on the new drive/system? I currently use two syncing services: MobileMe and SugarSync. I plan to disable them while I install the new system, with the hope that I can enable them on a system with the same username and drive name—thus streamlining the process of bringing them up to speed.
3) If either of these issues aren't possible, I do have another system installed in bay 3, so that would potentially allow me to remove my current system drive from the machine, thus allowing me to definitively use "System" as the name of the new system drive, and my current username as the new username.
Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
-Jason